A Night Out In Medellin: The Wardrobe! The Cocktails! The $3 Jewelry Finds!

On part two of day one in Medellin, my friend Katie and I (who you may remember as the A+ bachelorette party planner!) hit the town to drink a few cervezas and soak up the local culture. Check it out...

Katie is the fashion director at Shape magazine, so she's as much of a clotheshorse as I am and as usual, getting dressed was half the fun of going out:

I was so happy to ditch the snow boots I've been wearing in New York that I kicked it into full-on summer mode, busting out my LWD for the occasion.

We headed to Parque Lleras, a chic little square in Medellin that's packed with restaurants and bars and was pretty hopping even on a Monday night. We sat down to dinner at an outdoor cafe and somehow my high school Spanish caused a communication breakdown wherein I failed to realize that the waiter was telling me the evening's special was "three for one" drinks and materialized moments later with not one...not two...but yes, three rum cocktails all for my consumption. When in Rome, right?!

Post-dinner, we followed our three-for-one-fueled haze around the square, where there were tons of jewelry vendors set up with piles of beaded and leather jewelry--and let me tell you, drunk shopping happens to be a serious amount of fun. We dug through the bracelets, necklaces, and earrings, playing a little game of dress-up...